🏛️ Life

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”

“Live to the point of tears.”

“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.”

“Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers.”

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

“All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruin.”

“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality.”

“Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.”

“The moth does not see the flame as fire; the fish does not feel the water as wet. So we do not notice the medium of our own lives.”

“Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.”

“The soul is healed by being with children.”

“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy that is translated through you into action. And because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique.”

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

“In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life.”

“Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

“There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.”

“Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river.”

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

“Each day provides its own gifts.”

“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”

“We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.”

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

“Leave no stone unturned.”

“What you seek is seeking you.”

“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”

“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”

“The soul that is within me no man can degrade.”

“Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying I will try again tomorrow.”

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends.”

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

“The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.”

“The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe, before it's gone.”

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”

“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.”

“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”

“The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere is to be nowhere.”

“We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.”

“One who has mastered himself is a far greater hero than one who has conquered a thousand times a thousand men on the battlefield.”

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”

“The past is never dead. It is not even past.”

“The earth laughs in flowers.”

“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to ones courage.”